Word: flaccidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most film makers have used Expo's theme-"Man and His World"-to sanctify a marriage of convenience between formidable technique and flaccid story. But at the Labyrinth pavilion the theme is handled by Canada's prize winning National Film Board with solemnity and skill. In the vaulted chambers of a windowless, five-story building, the viewer follows a restatement of the Greek myth of Theseus, who entered a labyrinth on the island of Crete to slay the monstrous Minotaur. In the pavilion the labyrinth is evoked by a series of eerie corridors and chambers, including one auditorium...
...seldom departs from her customary screen self, and all seven women suffer from an unflatter ing family resemblance. Most of the blame, however, must fall on De Sica, who has wasted such talented actors as Arkin, Sellers, Michael Caine, Philippe Noiret and Vittorio Gassman in a ponderously directed, flaccid work. Better than anyone else, he should know that a tour de farce is like a striptease: there is no point in the performance if the material does not come off in style...
...Bunting's permission before Buildings and Grounds will turn up the heat during the winter. No one below her sets policies: the three Deans administer Harvard's academic policies according to the "Rules Relating to College Studies." Mrs. Bunting, it is said, makes all the other decisions for her flaccid bureaucracy. (She is surrounded. one alumna says, by a "Greek chorus," which nods agreeably at her every move...
...fills the space between a frisky title and a tricky TV-comedy ending, but doesn't fill it with any revels that require a viewer's complete attention. The movie's hero is a lickerish, hipsterish con artist named Kotch, played by James Coburn in a flaccid reprise of his role as Our Man Flint. In prison, Kotch cranks up a steal-a-million scheme, a testament to the faith of moviemakers that a tale so often told must be good for something-even if it is no longer good for laughs. After a cool blonde psychologist...
...odds, it was the most flaccid filibuster in memory. There was no reading of recipes or telephone books, none of the oldtime Bible-spouting, rip-snorting oratory. Dirksen and his filibuster co-captain, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, had assigned each of their 27 teammates to a group and a captain; each was prepared to carry on night and day if pushed. But nobody was pushing. Majority Leader Mansfield refused to hold marathon sessions, saw to it that the Senate always recessed in time for dinner, and once even in time for lunch-all of which moved Oregon...